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LONDON - The lobbyist alleged to have fixed political sponsorship deals for fallen US energy giant Enron is threatening to sue UK newspapers for libel.
Troubled telecoms equipment maker Marconi took steps to salvage its battered public image this week with the appointment of David Beck to its top comms post. Beck, currently on notice as MD of Bell Pottinger's financial PR operation, will join the former industrial behemoth in the next...
Schroders - one of the UK's largest fund managers - has dropped GCI Financial after more than four years handling corporate communications as part of a group-wide PR review. The firm, which last week admitted to an embarrassing 11m accounting error, has handed the bulk of its plc corporate...
Cordiant Communications subsidiary Business Communications International (BCI) this week lost both CEO Nick Miles and group MD Hugh Morrison. The loss of Miles, the former CEO of Cordiant's Financial Dynamics, and Morrison, formerly FD's international MD, leaves a question mark over the...
Retail giant Marks & Spencer has poached corporate PR veteran Flic Howard-Allen as its new director of comms. The store announced last week Howard-Allen would take the top PR job at its Baker Street HQ following the departure of incumbent Cheri Lofland after just 18 months. Howard-Allen,...
GPC International European chief executive Julia Harrison this week parted company with the lobbying shop. The Omnicom-owned network's Toronto-based chairman and CEO Hershell Ezrin is understood to have broken the news to her just days ago that her role was no longer part of the company's...
The Labour Party has broadened the remit of its top PR role and axed the title communications director following an overhaul by recently-appointed general secretary David Triesman. The Millbank-based post of assistant general secretary (party projections) has been created, with beefed up...
Sainsbury's has ended its five-month search for an investor relations chief, taking on Lynda Ashton from the BT Group. The supermarket chain lost its former head of IR David Boyd last September when he left to take the same role at mmO2, the demerged and rebranded wireless arm of BT (PRWeek,...
Polish oil refining giant PKN Orlen has turned to Smithfield Financial for IR and financial PR support in the UK and overseas. Smithfield replaces incumbent Financial Dynamics after a competitive pitch. Orlen, which is listed on the Warsaw and London Stock Exchanges and has a market...
The parent company of sports equipment giant Wilson has handed a corporate PR brief to Sports Impact. Helsinki-based Amer Sports uses sports and sponsorship specialist PR agency Sports Impact to promote its Wilson, Atomic and Sunnto brands. It has handed the firm a corporate brief...
